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Well, if that were so, why could it not be pure and easy joy for them both, as it was for other sons and mothers when there were happy marriage afoot? Why must their life, even in such parts of it as escaped the shadow of Peacey or Roger, be so queer in climate? This time it was Richard's fault. She had been willing to be lightly, facilely happy over it like other people.
He didn't especially like the latter, a man with an exuberant loud friendliness, a good nature, that served as a cover for a facilely predatory sensuality. He was continually taking hold of feminine arms, bending close over dinner dresses; and he used with a show of humorous frankness his long knowledge of the girls of Eastlake as a reason for kissing them on every possible occasion.
We may not always swing the door of the lunatic as facilely outward as inward the nature of his malady will not always admit of this but we should do it whenever we can, and never, when we must, should we close it harshly.
In fine, the Prince de Gatinais became so jovial that Nelchen was quite at ease, and Louis de Soyecourt became vaguely alarmed. He knew his father, and for the Prince to yield thus facilely was incredible. Still, his father had seen Nelchen, had talked with Nelchen.... Now the Prince rose. "Fresh glasses, Vanringham," he ordered; and then: "I give you a toast.
Though inferior in beauty to many, her fine figure and expressive eyes could never pass unnoticed. "Dear little Cecil, how well she is looking!" thought he, facilely forgetting his latest flame, and just becoming sensible of her "altered eye." "My niece," said Bertie, in a theatrical tone, intended to disguise his perception of it, "shall we tread a measure?
Yet I do but avail myself of to-day's privilege.... It is an odd thing that people will facilely assent to Don Adriano's protestation against a certain travestying of Hector, "Sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the dead, for when he breathed he was a man," even while through the instant the tide of romance will be setting quite otherwhither, with their condonation.
Just as I was parting with two of my five dollars for a ticket to the chosen destination my man came up to the ticket window, followed by a hotel porter carrying a grip and a sample case. I saw then how facilely easy it was going to be to take fright at shadows. Evidently the young man was a salesman, and his apparent pursuit of me had been merely a coincidence in corner turnings.
It also enables him to follow with the closest attention and the most lively interest all kinds of electrical, magnetic, and other etheric action; and when some of the specialists in these branches of science are able to develop the power to see these things whereof they speak so facilely, some very wonderful and beautiful revelations may be expected." Space Clairvoyance.
"I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins." The words fall facilely from the lips of worshippers in every Christian church throughout the world, as they repeat the familiar creeds called those of the Apostles and the Nicene.
Remember, I doctor the nerves of all the women in San Francisco and this is a hard climate on nerves. Wonder more women don't go to the devil." He kissed her again and escaped hurriedly. Those were the days when women wept facilely, "swooned," inhaled hartshorn, calmed themselves with sal volatile, and even went into hysterics upon slight provocation. Madeleine Talbot merely wept.
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